Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 44, Decatur, Adams County, 22 February 1960 — Page 8

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Ohio State Is Sure Os Tie For Big Ten By t'toted Ffw ImIWMMMgI Ohio Stat*'* kfl* *htf kid* can bark Into the Big Ten till* tonight while Cincinnati and BradWy phv k*y Mlaaourt Vatev Coodrfimu- bearing on port-***** tournament lomprUtipn Indiana'! Big Ten rofrtrit with Ilinol* i» the pivot for the Buckeyes' immediate clinching of the champton*h>p The H«»ier» are the only conference team that stand* a chance of tying Ohio State for the crown But a »»* to the Ihni would »ee that faint hope go by the board* Cincinnati and Bradley, the natH>n » second and fourth-ranked teams, are currently tied for first place in Missouri Valley standings with 9-1 league records. Bradley may have the worst of the opposition, for the “rave* face a Houston squad that held AU-American Oscar Robertson to 14 points while losing to Cincmnatl. 57-47. Saturday night The second ranked Bearcats play North Texas State, which Bradley beat convincingly. 69-39 Rave One Canaelation The teams have one consolation. however. The conference winner will get an NCAA bid. while the two top runners -up are alr>ost certain to »md up in the NIT California, the defending NCAA champion and the No. I team in the United Press International

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Pro Basketball AaUirday • Acwrea Cincinnati lit. Delrwt lot hyracuaa IJt New Yoh 111 Philadelphia lit. Mmnex.ia IM st LouU in. Boston iOS Hangar's Seeree Philadelphia lit New York 111 Syracuse 10. Detroit IK Boston US Cincinnati lot | Minneapolis lit. SI Lout* M Fa«irrn INrislea W 1. Pct Boston ......as... Ul<* Philadelphia 44 22 667 ' Syracuse ... .. TO 27 SOI New York 26 M 4* Western IMrisian W L Pct St Louia .... TO 23 AW DeU<>it 25 40 385 J Minneapolis It 44 »> i Cincinnati 17 50 254 I rating*, virtually clinched a post[season tournament berth by whipping UCLA. <7-57. The Bears' victory over the Uelans gave them i a good jump on the Big I* ive title California now is 8-1 and second I place UCLA 6-3. with three league 'games remaining for each. Fifth-ranked West Virginia, a favorite in Thursday's opening of the Southern Conference tournament for an NCAA berth, trim‘med Pittsburgh. as AllAmerican Jerry West scored 29 points in his final varsity home appearance. I All the other top-ranked teams, except Villanova, piaye' Saturday night. Ohio State led a thril- ; ler parade with an 84-83 victory over Michigan State. Auburn Shades Kentucky ( Eighth - ranked Georgia Tech 'held a first place tie with Auburn in the Southeastern Conference by 'shading Georgia. 6SMSB Auburn I edged Kentucky. 61-60: sixth-rank-ed Utah, and No. 7. Utah State won easily to remain tied for the Skyline Conference lead. Utah beat New Mexico. 91-83. and Utah State trampled Wyoming. 81-67. Texas A 4 M ranked 10th. also stayed in a Southwest Conference tie for first place by lacing Arkansas, 82-61. Co-holders Southern Methodist humbled Texas Christian. 98 - 67, and Texas downed, I Texas Tech, 74-61. I Kansas moved into three -way tie for top position with Colorado; and Kansas State with a 75-67 j triumph over Colorado. Kansas IState was upset by Nebraska. 70|6O.

Don January Wins Tucson Open Title I TtTJVW. Art* nTPT* — Don 'January pocketed UR» today tor winning Ute MB 000 Tbr»on Ojwm <t»lf ImarfMlfWflt *H»r M-yesrold Dmvrf pmfraI »bo< hit wwwt rmittd of th* I Mundtey *■* • <w»* ! iMrtptr •— but •Uli *•» m<mml I FftOU gh to baat out Bub Harrla of IWmnrtka. 111. by three *trak*a. January had a 73 hoi* total of 771 with a 33 34 card on th* final !r,nind and a cumulative card of i 67 47 fix 69 "I just want to thank all the lx>y« out there who didn't play too well.** grinned January aa he ac- . ecplrd top pri»e money. He 'originally planned to skip the TucI »on Open to play in the Veneruela tournament on the Caribbean tour Hmbpro E J ’Dutch' KarriI u>n. just one stroke behind Don at the start of the final day. drop-la-d to third on the final 18 holes He tied with Jack Harden, El Paso. Tex., at 275 | Following Harriion and Harden were seven colfera bunched at 276 They included first-play leader Paul Harney. Worchester. Mass ; Al BesseUnk. Grassinger. N Y.t Arnold Palmer. Ligonier. Pa.l Pel* Mazur. Ixing Island. Y.’ Joe Campbell. New York City Gay Brewer Jr.. Crystal River. Fla. and Butch Baird. Beaumont, Tex.

Bowling Scores MINOR LEAGUE W L Pts. Holthouse on Hiwayj. 11 J 15 Fagers Sporting Goods 10 5 14 i Spud & JimsJO 5 ” Wolffsw ; « Clems - " , I Walts Standard ■ * M.O.C. Puptent 23 ... 7 • , Smiths Pure Milk 3 12 4 Downtown Texaco — - 3 12 •» 200 games: R. Houser 204. E. Wolff 224. J. B Sprunger 201. H. Miller 201, A. Schneider 210. R Carrier 207. J. Beauchot 223, R Beauchot 201. Bantam League W L Pins 1 Chiefs... 20 11 739 Hope »- 15 9 699 Falcons ...JL 18 13 325 Ravens 16 16 707 j Conrads “86 " 15 413 'Hawks —* 6 22 High game: Ted Kleinhenz 169. High 2 game series: Ted Kleinhenz 306. . r ft- ~~ ■£- Rural League W L Pts. Blackstone 13 5 18 4 Community Oil 12 6 17 Schrock Builders 11 7 16 [ McConnells 11 7 15, i Schaffers Restaurant 9 9 12 I Steckleys 8 10 11 Sheets Furniture 9 9 1° | ; Stucky & Co. ■ -■--■-I 8 10 10 I Pioneer Drive-In 5 13 7j Klenks 4 14 4 200 games: Barlett 204, M. Weisman 203, D. Mies 213, A. Schrock 212. 500 series: Barlett 526, M. Weisman 502, C. Snider 514, D. Mies 557, A. SChrock 528, P. Inniger 523. Big Ten Standings W L Pct. TP OP Ohio State 11 0 1.00 1020 772 Indiana 7 3 .700 821 730 Minnesota 8 4 . 667 904 838 Purdue 6 5 .545 841 801 Illinois 5 5 .500 799 821 Northwestern 6 6 .500 650 708 Mich. State 5 6 .455 899 800 lowa 4 7 .364 755 801 Wisconsin 2 8 .200 716 833 Michigan > 0 10 . 000 598 762

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a */ !■•il Team Mandtag* W L PH Berne 16 3 70 Geneva 16 3 70 Adam* Central .... 14 3 73? Commodorea ? 13 3U Hartford 7 13 150 Yellow Jacket* .... 6 14 300 Monmouth 3 14 30 Pleaiant Milla .... 4 IS 211 This la the week of deei»l*n! Season records art furaotter. this week aa Indiana high school basketball teams prepare for the annual sectional tourneys, which get underway Wednesday and Thursday in 64 sites over the state The Adams Central sectional, comprised of the eight Adams county high schools, will open with two games Wednesday night, continue with a pair Thursday night and wind up w<h the semi-final* Saturday afternoon and the final.Saturday night. —cOo— Today, the Decatnr Daily Democrat publishes it* annual secUooal edition, presenting photos of aU eight teama. their season records, lists of players certified for the tourney, well wishes from business firms throughout the coanty. and Baaketbawl'a piek of the tourney winner. • Ticket sales are underway al all height schools for the tourney. For fans unable to attend the games, entire tourney will be broadcast over radio station WGL. Fort Wayne, with Len Davis at the mike. Final standings in the Northeastern Indiana conference race, won by the Bluffton Tigers, follow: W L Pct Bluffton 7 2 .778 Angola 6 2 .750 Garrett — 6 2 .750 Concordia 5 3 .625 New Haven 5 3 .62' Columbia City ...x 3 3 .50C Kendallville .—... 3 .333 Decatur ... 2 7 .22? Elmhurst 1 5 .143 •Auburn 0 5 .000 —oOo— Three Ad ms county teams' wound up in a triple tie for the Eastern Wabash Valley conference ' championship. The Adams Central I Greyhounds. Berne Bears and Qu- 1 neva Cardinals all had conference' records of. four_xictnrie.s and one, defeat. Phil Sprunger. of Berne, was leading scorer in conference games with 103 points. Archbold, of Ossian, was second with 81 points and Rod Schwartz, of Berne, third with 79. Other top scorers were: Jim Brown. Adams Central. 67; Larry Baumer, Geneva, 65; Larry Foreman, Adams Central. 64; kreigh, Ossian, 64; Waldo Bultemeier, Monmouth, 59; Stuff Lancaster, 58; Larry Laux, Geneva, 51 —pOo— Don Baker, senior guard for the Decatur Commodores, won his second consecutive Adams county scoring championship by racking up 386 points in 20 games for a 19-point average per game. Phil Sprunger, of Berne was second with 345 points and Larry Foreman. Adams Central, was third with 311. The top 10 scorers, with games played, total points scored, and average per game, are as follows: 2,. Players GP TP Ave. Baker, Commodores 20 386 19.0 Sprunger, Berne 21 345 16.43 Foreman, A. C. 19 311 16.37 Schwartz. Berne 19 301” 15.8 Moser. Martford 19 290 15.3 L. Baumer, Geneva 21 272 J 3.0 Brunner, P. M. 19 270 14.2 Bollenbacher. Y. J. 20 256 12.8 Cowan, Y. J. 20 251 12.6 Hoover, Hartford 14 221 15.8 Hockey Results Sunday’s Scores National League Montreal 6, Detroit 3. New York 7, Boston 2. Chicago 7, Toronto 5.

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Russia Holds To Long Lead -j In Olympics SQUAW VALLEY <UFI» — H Russia again*! th* fl*M in h* Winter <Xym®c Games today with a determined United Wales bock*y team. a dedicated >katin* beauty and a wavward akter keeping Unelr Sam from bring a -ompirt* aboran But there wet no catching Russia for unofficial tram chamoionskip With seven daya of com□etitton still remaining th* blueclad Soviet athlete* already had ■ompiled OH points In the "battle" for the unofficial team chamiionship And they have won seven of the 24 medals already awarded — four more than any >ther nation What's more they were favored to pick up at least one more gold medal today, perhaps two There was no prospect for a first place for the US in todays three championship events. Sweden ( Use.l T* Russia Sweden was closest to Russia with 29 points, followed by Germany with 28 and then the U S with It. In the medal department it was three for the US. but none of them gold — only one silver and two bronze. But there is a gold one coming up Tuesday unless that skater. Carol Heiss, the old lady" ir> the field at the tender age of 20. falls flat in the ce in today’s final compulsory figure or Tuesday's free skating events. And the U S. hockey team made the championship round when it slaughtered Australia Sunday night, 12-1. to jo'n Russia — yes, again — Canada. Czechoslovakia. Germany and Sweden in the title round. There isn’t much hope they will beat out the Russians or the Canadians, but at least they’re still alive. As for thv skier:

Tommy Corcoran — who was fourth in the giant slalom Sunday — was born in Japan, became a US. citizen, went to Dartmouth and Harvard and now lives in Beaconsfield, Canada. Largest Winter Crowd There were more cheers for him Sunday than anyone else from the crowd of 47.000 — the largest ever to view a winter sports event In the United States —when he flashed down mountain KT-22. to honorably combat the favored European competitors. His time of one minute and 49 7 seconds wasn't good enough to beat ’em. but it came close. He was onlv six-tenths of a second out 8f third place — the bronze medal — one fleeting second out of second — the silver — and a mere one and four-tenths seconds away from the gold medal. In this weaving and bobbing run through 56 staggered “gates," hisTourthplacefinish was a spectacular one. And of that mammouth crowd, some early arriving 20,000, who had fought their way through miles of snarling traffic to get to Squaw Valley, greeted

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ADAMS CENTRAL I.H.S.A.A. SECTIONAL BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT AT THE ADAMS CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL GYM FEBRUARY 24, 25, 27 WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, SATURDAY NOTICE! GAME TIMES ARE LISTED on DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME! WEDNESDAY Game 1—7:00 p. m.-Decatur Catholic and Hartford Center Game 2—8:15 p. m.—Geneva and Adams Central THURSDAY Game 3-7:00 p. m.-Pleasant Mills and Decatur Game 4-8:15 p. m.-Berno and Monmouth SATURDAY Game 5-100 p. m.-Winner game 1 and game 2 Gameß—2:ls p. m.—Winner flame 3 on ° ■* ,m * * Game 7-8:15 p. m.-Winner flame 5 and game 6 Doors will open to ticket holders ONE HOUR before the first game. Everybody must have tickets-regardless of school afle —including small children.

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